Teen Bedwetting

All of us remember what child bedwetting is like. Waking up in the middle of the night with a wet feeling around your middle, and gradually increasing feelings of anxiety is something that no one cherishes when they think about childhood. Nonetheless, if it happens to you as a kid, people usually forgive you for it. After all, it is a natural part of growing up.

Teen bedwetting, however, is something much different. We all have to pass certain stages of development, but sometimes we get a little bit scared along the away. Teen bedwetting is usually a sign of some kind of developmental issue. The teenage bedwetters are scared to go beyond something – scared to grow up. Although teen bedwetters can be treated through physical means, the bedwetting itself is a sign of deeper emotional problems that are often unaddressed.

Often, however, treating teen bed wetting itself is enough. My daughter suffered from teen incontinence, and you could tell that it embarrassed her like nothing else. Usually, she would try to hide the sheets, but eventually we figured it out. We decided not to confront her directly with her teen bedwetting problem. Instead, we took an indirect approach.

We simply left a cabinet with childhood supplies open. One of these was a stop bedwetting aid, consisting of two metal leads and an alarm that would go off whenever moisture made a connection between them. It was made to help stop childhood bedwetting, but would work very well for teen bedwetting as well. We let her find this, sneak it off, and think that she had gotten it without our knowledge. 

She was able to stop teen bedwetting on her own, and the experience increased her self-confidence. If we had confronted her with it, however, it would have mortified her. She would have been humiliated beyond belief. As it is now, she is much happier than before she stopped the teen bedwetting. When she was a teen bedwetter, she had all kinds of self-confidence issues.

She would never have sleepover at friend houses, for example, for fear that her teen bed wetting problem would embarrassed her. Nowadays, however, she likes nothing better than sleepovers. Whatever the cause of her teenage bedwetting, it has been overcome when she cured the actual condition. We don't need to psychoanalyze her, and we probably never will. It was enough to give her the tools that she needed to help herself.